[License-review] Request for License Retirement: CPAL 1.0

[Bruce Perens]

It was pointed out to me that Mulesoft was using the CPAL license:
https://www.mulesoft.com/cpal
I seem to remember that they very loudly went to a not-quite-Open-Source
license, but perhaps not for all of the modules named.

    Thanks

    Bruce


On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:31 PM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:

> I am requesting retirement of CPAL 1.0
>
> It says on the OSI web site that a request for retirement can only be made
> by the license steward. However, the license steward was a business that
> does not appear to exist any longer. I see this information on
> Wikipedia: "On May 1, 2012, Socialtext was acquired by Bedford Funding, a
> $1.4 billion private equity firm that also owns Peoplefluent and the
> product was intergrated in its portfolio." I see various github
> repositories making use of the license with no changes more recent than 8
> years ago.
>
> Thus, I submit that in the name of removing useless and completely unused
> licenses from the set of approved licenses, other parties should be allowed
> to request the retirement of a license with no remaining steward.
>
> At this time, I can find no active use of the license at all, only
> historical use. And IMO it was a mistake for OSI to approve the license at
> all. It was very contentious at the time, received a lot of press, and in
> the aftermath, was completely useless. So, retirement for the purpose of
> cleaning up a mistake seems to be a good reason, too.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
> --
> Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital.
>


-- 
Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital.
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